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Many of the reviews of the CW’s new action series “Nikita” have pointed out that the show is based on a tale that’s been told before. The first version was the French film “La Femme Nikita” (1990), the next was the inevitable (and inferior) American remake “”Point of No Return” (1993), and the third was a TV series called “La Femme Nikita” which ran from 1997-2001. You can run from Nikita, but you can’t hide.

Hawaiian-born actress Maggie Q plays the latest Nikita, a troubled young woman who is trained by a shadowy agency known as Division to be a assassin; she eventually escapes their clutches and turns against her former masters.

You can read what critics have to say about the show after the jump. Read More »

The former model, who trained with Jackie Chan and appeared in Chinese films, stars as a rogue assassin the CW’s “Nikita,” premiering Sept. 9. In the role, Q does most of her own stunts — whether it’s snapping a mobster’s neck while wearing a skimpy red bikini or taking down armed gunmen at a cocktail party.

Aside from the obvious appeal of seeing the striking Q (born Margaret Denise Quigley, to a Polish father and Vietnamese mother) kick some serious butt, the show sets up a storyline that has Nikita avenging the murder of her fiancé and fighting back against the shadowy government agency that trained her.

“She’s this incredibly flawed human being who is a product of her circumstance,” Q says on a break from shooting in Toronto. Read More »

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.